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History of the house
Xerjoff was founded in 2007 in Turin (Italy) by Sergio Momo and Dominique Salvo. Momo is an Italian entrepreneur with no perfumer training. Xerjoff sits in the luxury niche tier alongside Tom Ford Private Blend, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, ROJA London and Creed.
The breakthrough came with Naxos in 2015, a honey-tobacco-vanilla composition by Chris Maurice that became a Reddit niche fragrance forum favorite and pushed the Xerjoff name into the mainstream luxury niche conversation. The release coincided with the moment buyers were rediscovering rich oriental masculines after the long austerity of aquatic and woody-citrus marines dominating the 2000s.
The Casamorati 1888 sub-line, launched in 2009, uses the name of a Bologna-based heritage perfume house founded by Claudio Casamorati in 1888. Xerjoff acquired the naming rights and rebuilt the line as a contemporary reinterpretation. Mefisto, Bouquet Ideale and La Tosca have become the line's signatures. The XJ Shooting Stars limited-edition line is aimed at Middle Eastern and Russian luxury collectors.
No luxury conglomerate has bought the house, unlike Maison Francis Kurkdjian (LVMH majority stake announced in 2017). In 2018 Andrea Tessitore joined its capital as a minority shareholder and chairman of the board, while Sergio Momo kept charge of the creative side. Xerjoff Group, based in Moncalieri just outside Turin, sells both Xerjoff and Casamorati through the same official webshop.
The collections
Xerjoff structures its catalog into distinct lines, each with its own olfactory point of view and price tier. The Turin house is far more than its core range: it runs a wide span of permanent and thematic collections, from the entry-level to genuine collector's pieces. Two of them stand apart as worlds in their own right: Casamorati 1888, a heraldic sub-brand that revives nineteenth-century Italian perfumery, and Oud Stars, which weds the Arabian soul of oud to the house's Italian style. The principal fine-fragrance lines are the following.
Casamorati 1888
Casamorati is not merely a line but a sister brand with its own heraldic identity, its own logo, bottles and backstory. Launched in 2009, it revives the heritage of a late nineteenth-century Italian perfume house dating back to 1888, whose name Xerjoff took up to build a contemporary reinterpretation. The line plays a classic, opulent Italian register, floral, chypre and oriental, built around anchors such as Mefisto, Bouquet Ideale, La Tosca, Lira and Dolce Amalfi. It is the most accessible entry point into the house's world, positioned below the Xerjoff core range, and that is what makes it a world apart: a Belle Epoque-inflected perfumery rather than Sergio Momo's contemporary signature.
Oud Stars
Oud Stars is the house's oud-dedicated collection, inspired by the travels of the explorer Ibn Battuta: each fragrance bears the name of a city he visited and described, from Alexandria and Zafar to Fars, Gao, Luxor and Malesia. The line weds the Arabian soul of oud to an Italian olfactory style, in dense woody, floral and oriental constructions. It is the most Middle Eastern-leaning side of the house and one of its prestige territories.
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars gathers the house's most exclusive editions, with bottles that incorporate a certified fragment of meteorite. The line trades on absolute rarity, with precious materials and pricing that climbs into collector's-piece territory. It sits at the very top of the Xerjoff pyramid, aimed at Gulf, Russian and global luxury collectors.
Join the Club
Join the Club evokes the hushed world of members-only clubs and ultra-select lifestyles. The collection delivers comfortable, statement compositions conceived as signatures of luxurious belonging. One of the house's own collections, it extends the house's opulent identity into a more lifestyle-driven register.
Blends
Blends grows out of Sergio Momo's vision of perfume as a living entity intertwined with other sensory elements. The line explores multisensory accords and less expected material pairings, in a more experimental spirit than the core range. It illustrates the house's refusal to lock its writing into a single formula.
Coffee Break and 1861
Two further lines round out the permanent offer. Coffee Break draws on the coffee ritual common to many cultures, turning it into warm gourmand compositions around Golden Dallah, Golden Green and Più Forte. 1861, created to mark the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, celebrates the house's Italian identity through fragrances such as Naxos, a tribute to Sicily, Renaissance, Decas and Zefiro.
Notable perfumes
The Xerjoff catalog runs to more than 180 original scents across all its lines. The selection below covers its most-cited milestones.
| Year | Perfume | Perfumer | Accord |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Casamorati Mefisto | Maurizio Cerizza | Aromatic woody |
| 2012 | Alexandria II | Chris Maurice | Oriental woody |
| 2012 | More Than Words | Chris Maurice | White floral musky |
| 2015 | Casamorati La Tosca | Chris Maurice | Floral chypre |
| 2015 | Naxos | Chris Maurice | Honey-tobacco oriental |
| 2018 | 40 Knots | Chris Maurice | Aquatic woody luxury |
Olfactory signature
The Xerjoff signature is Italian opulence with Middle Eastern accents. The brand leans heavily on oud, rose, honey, tobacco, dense resins (frankincense, opoponax) and rich white florals (tuberose, jasmine, orange blossom). This register reflects the influence of the Saudi, Emirati and Gulf flagship buyers.
The brand's writing splits across three core territories. The Xerjoff core line plays luxury opulent oriental, anchored by Naxos (2015, honey-tobacco-vanilla). The XJ Shooting Stars line pushes into ultra-premium oud and rose constructions. The Casamorati 1888 line, anchored by Mefisto (2009, aromatic wood), stays more accessible with floral chypre and oriental builds.
Three signals make Xerjoff recognizable:
- Luxury opulence positioning, opposite of the sober Italian niche houses (Bois 1920, Eau d’Italie).
- Middle Eastern-leaning compositions, the oud-rose-honey-resin axis that connects with the Gulf taste profile.
- Dual line strategy, the Xerjoff line at the prestige tier and Casamorati 1888 as the more accessible heritage line, covering both the prestige and accessible luxury niche tiers without diluting brand equity.